The panel — open to the public, but with limited space — will explain the specific weather conditions that caused the flooding, its historical context and the impact of a shifting climate.

The Western Water Assessment, a program of the Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Sciences at CU, will also release a preliminary assessment of the floods containing information on weather, water and climate.

-Jeff Lukas, senior research associate with WWA, who will begin the panel with an overview of the weather and climate context of the flood.

-Kelly Mahoney, a CIRES research scientist who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory. Mahoney is an expert on Front Range thunderstorms.

-Klaus Wolter, a CIRES research scientist who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory. Wolter is an expert on extreme weather and seasonal weather patterns in the Front Range. He also is a Jamestown resident.

-Nolan Doesken, state climatologist for Colorado at Colorado State University. Doesken has an encyclopedic knowledge of Colorado’s climate and weather history.

-Marty Hoerling, research meteorologist with NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory. Hoerling is an expert on attribution of climate conditions to weather events.

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